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Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) involves using a server’s local storage, coupled with software-defined storage (SDS), to create a virtual SAN whose storage is accessible from all the nodes in an HCI cluster. Using HCI, storage and compute are managed from the same console. To add compute and storage in a HCI cluster you only need to purchase additional HCI nodes instead of, as with legacy data center topologies, having to buy storage, integrate it with servers and then manage your storage and compute using different management consoles. Despite its advantages HCI is not a cure-all for data center woes; in fact, we are seeing an over-reliance on HCI adversely affecting the data center’s economics. Enterprises

With all that is going on in the world – many if not all events are now online. This includes the annual Synology live event, Synology 2021 AND BEYOND.  The company is teasing us with some great updates and gives us some promise for 2021. They mainly covered Synology DSM 7.0, Hybrid Cloud, their new Data Backup strategy and changes to photo management. (more…)

Britain's competition watchdog, Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), outlined a new regime for regulating tech giants such as Facebook and Google, saying it needed new powers to harness the full potential of digital markets and drive competition and innovation.

Facebook has highlighted its 2020 in review across six themes — Icons, Social Awakening, COVID-19, Global Politics, Environmental Causes, and Faith and Community. Facebook also curated its top 10 Pop Culture Moments for the first time this year. The data reflects activities between January 1 and October 31, 2020.

From PlayStation 5 consoles to pandemic-era essential goods, “Scalper bot” software is used by resellers to snatch up products online and relist them moments later at significant mark-ups on eBay and Amazon.

Nokia Purebook laptop models will be allegedly launched in India soon and could be available via Flipkart. The development was shared by a known tipster on twitter. The lineup may include nine new laptops.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the India Mobile Congress that India is emerging as the most preferred destination for mobile manufacturing.

Opera is rolling out version 61 of its Web browser on Android. The update includes an integrated media player that has Play Queue support. It also has WebSnap that lets users snapshot a page and add doodles, text, and emojis to it before sharing it with others.

Christopher Nolan has called HBO Max the “worst streaming service” and labelled the Warner Bros. deal as “very messy” and a “real bait and switch”. Nolan isn’t pleased that the filmmakers involved weren’t consulted on the move. He added the “decision makes no economic sense” and that Warner Bros. doesn’t “understand what they’re losing”.

With the chances of a COVID-19 vaccine being available soon increasing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the India Mobile Congress that the mobile technology will be used for mass inoculation against the pandemic.